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here it mull latlier be on account of the difTL-rence of ftruc- 



•!;re in its male and female flowers, than for their fliglit 



:xual anomalies. Even for this difference of ilruchire we 



ii.ould rather place it in D'lada. See Sni. Introd. to Botany, 



470, 485. 



Obf. This genus has gonfiderable affinity with Ccra'onia, 

 ipecially in the fruit. We cannot apply the term a»ten!iim to 

 1: i inflorefcence, which is a fpike. 



Eir. Ch. Male, Calyx of three leaves. Petals three. Nec- 

 tary turbinate. Stamejis fix. 



Female, Calyx of ftve leaves. Petals live. Nectaries two. 

 Pillil one. Lcgum/< 



Some flowers united, four-cleft. 



The fpecies of Gkihtjia are as yet a mafs of confufion. 

 0.tr:n:a:ithos, Linn. Sp. PI. 1509, the original one, a na- 

 ve of North America, was cultivated by bilhop Compton 

 ; 1 70c, and is a tall handfome tree, which bears our cli- 



Ue well, except being fomctimes broken, like Rr,l>i/iia 

 I'iiiidj-acac'ui, by ftrong wirids. It is remarkiible for its 

 i:ii-(^e trifid or compound fpines, which grow on the trunk 

 to the length of fix or eight inches, from a very flender bafe. 

 The leaves are deciduous, bipin.nate, large, con'llling of 

 J innumerable elliptical, {lightly toothed, nearly fmooth leaf- 

 lets, half an inch or near an inch long. Flowers greenilh, 

 iu axillary fpikes. Some leaves appear to be fimply pinnate, 

 but we know not whetlier this is a fpecific difference or not. 



A very dillincl fpecies is cultivated with us by the nan.ie 

 of G.chiiK'nJis, which Linnceus alfo had at Upfal, but lu 

 doss not feem to have defcribed it The fpines are com- 

 pound. Leaves fimply and abruptly pinnate, of feven or 

 eight pair of thin, fquarifh, unequal-fided, crenate leaflets, 

 graduallv larger upwards, the terminal pair being fometimes 

 twice thedimer.fions of the next. 



In Sion garden?, belonging to the duke of Northumber- 

 land, is a tree of another fpecies, of which we find no men- 

 tion. Its leaves are fimply pinnate like the laft, and the 

 leaflets alfo gradually larger upwards, but they are cori- 

 aceous, elliptical, their fides very feldom unequal. The 

 calyx -leaves and petals are narrower, {l-.orter, and blunter- 

 than in G. triacanlhos. Of its fpines we have no account, 

 but the leaves and flowers were communicated to us by Mr. 

 Hoy, in Auguft 1 796, as a GleJrlJin not in the Horljs 

 Kfwfnfii, where, indeed, all that are known are made varie- 

 ties of the tr'iaianthos. From the new edition of this valu- 

 able work perhaps more information may be expected. 



G. infrmis, firit mentioned by Linnxus in the fecond edi- 

 tion of Sp. PI. 1509, feems to have been adopted without 

 a fp;cin-.en, from Plukenet's t%. 123. f. 3, to which is added 

 Miller's t. 5~, which la!t reprefents a Mimofa, nor does any 

 lubfequent writer appsar to know any thing of this fpecies. 



It would be a tedious and unprofitable taflc to attentpt a 

 determination of the fynonvms of this genus, even if the 

 fpecies were denned. The latter is a defirable ob'ieft, and 

 worthy the attention of thofe who have perpetual accefs to • 

 the old botanic gardens about London, and can obforve 

 thefe trees at different periods of growth. It is ncceffary to 

 determine whether the fimply «ir doubly piunated leaves 

 mark a fpecific diftinction; whether the fpines vary accord- 

 JB"- to the age of the tree; and whether the legume is, in 

 any fpecies, conftantly fingle-feeded, or merely from acci- 

 dental abortion. Travellers in America can fcarcely be ex- 

 pefted to throw any light on fuch botanical queilions as 

 thefe, though a careful obferver, refident there, might ren- 

 der highlv important fervices to botany, and to the moll ufe- 

 ful arts of life, by determining firll the fpecific differences, 

 and then the economical qualities, of all the American trees, 

 among wliicb- the Qitd'iiju claim a dillinguiflicd place. The 



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labours of a Lambert among tJie Pines, and a Michaux 

 among the Oaks, are models for future enquirer-. 



Gj-EDIT.si.i, in Gardening, comprehends a plant of the 

 deciduous tree or ftirub kind ; of which the fpecies ufuallv 

 cultivated is the ihree-thorncd acacia (G. triacantho*/, 

 which feldom rifes higher than a fhrub in this country. 



There are feveral varieties with different numbers of 

 fpines, and with llronger and weaker fpines. 



Method of 6.v.'/.7rr.— Thefe trees a.-c capable of being in- 

 crcafed by lowing the feeds, which are obtained frelh from 

 America, m a bed of light tarth, in the carlv fpring fcdfon, 

 watering them otcafionally ^viun the feafcn' is dri-. It is, 

 however, a much more expeditious practice to fow them in 

 pots, and plunge tliem in a moderate hot-bed. The plai.ts 

 fliould be kept clean during the fu-lt fmnmer after they 

 appear, and in tlie fuccecding winter be well prottcttd from 

 icvere fiolls, efpecially fuch'as are in pots. 



The young plants may, moil of them, in the following 

 fpring, be removed and fet out into nurfcry rows, at a foiA- 

 or cigliteen inches diilant from each other, and eight or ten 

 inches in the rows, ouch fmall plants as remain, may be 

 put out in the fame manner in tlie next autumn or fpring. 



The plants fliouId continue in this fituation till they liave 

 had two or three years grow th, after v.iiich thev may be 

 tranfplanted into the fituations in which thev are to remain 

 any time towards the latter part of the fpring feafon. 



Thefe plants are found to fuccced bed in fituations where 

 the foils are of the more light deep kinds; and rather {hel- 

 tcred from the inclemenor of the atniofphere. 



They arc all very ornamental trees, and well adapted to ■ 

 large ftirubberies, plantations, and pleafure grounds. When 

 planted alone, on lawns, and large open fpaces that arc 

 kept in fhort grafs, they produce a fine appearance. They 

 have, however, the difadvantage of putting forth their 

 leaves at rather a late pe.iod, 



GLEE, a nnillcal term derived by Skinner, Junius, John- 

 fon, and all the etymologitts, from 5)35j,e, Saxon, jey, 

 mhlb, /port. 



^is incrrtr mni commau'.iCct) ije 

 "^0 lualicii l;ini bcih gnmc nnD glee. 



Chaucer, Rim. S . Tap. v. 126. 



The term, we believe, is noc to be found in mufic-books, 

 or mufical writers, before the n-.iddle of it.e 17th century. 

 The firll time it appears in the title of a colli ction of canon's, 

 rounds, and catches, is in a publication by John Playford. ■ 

 1667, under the title of " Dialogues, GIees,^A>-n?s, and 

 Ballads, of two, three, and fourVoyccs." 



A glee in rauiic imphes nothing more in its original fcnfe, • 

 in our printed mufic-books, than " a fong of tiinv or more 

 parts, upon a gay or merry fubjecl, in which all the voices 

 begin and end together, finging tiic fame words." When 

 fubjects of fug.ue or imitation occur, and the compofition is 

 more artificial than fimple counterpoint, it lefs relcmbles a 

 glee than a madrigal, wliich it miglit, with more 1 ropriety. 

 be called, if the words arc ferious: for a ferious glee feems 

 a lolccilm, and a direct contradiclion in terms. The word 

 glee, in Saxon, CJerman, and Englilh dictionaries ancient 

 and modern, implying viirik, merriment, and in Chaucer and . 

 other old authors, inujfic itfelf. 



GLEET, in Surgery, commonly fignifies the continuatioB 

 of a thin difcharge from the urethra, after the inflanimator)- 

 fymptoms of a clap have for fome time ccafed. However, the 

 running whicii talces place from the urethra, in cafes of ■ 

 ffrirturcs, difcafed prollate gland, tvc. is alfo frequently 

 called a gleet. A mere gleet, unattended with any oilier 

 dileafc of the pacts, is not accompauicd with the remarkable 



